"Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man."

"No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people."

"If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain."

"We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement."

"Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint."

"There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation."

"Strive today so that tomorrow may stand upon solid ground. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor."